LRO Launch - More Views

Though the actual Atlas rocket carrying NASA's LRO mission was launched from a site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Mission Operations Control Center (or MOCC) is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It is from the MOCC and Flight Conrol room (also at Goddard) that engineers will actually "fly" the spacecraft into orbit and throughout the mission. This footage shows LRO's Goddard-based flight team on the day of launch (footage with NASA logo in corner is from KSC, but was added for context).

A camera attached externally to the Atlas rocket shows the path from launch pad to orbit (4:3 SD upres).

This camera vantage point is from level 9 of the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) where the LRO/LCROSS payload was put atop the Atlas rocket prior to launch.

A camera inside the rocket fairing captured this view with LCROSS visible in the foreground before the fairing opened up and revealed the limb of the Earth.

The perimeter camera of KSC's launch pad 39A captured this view of the launch (16x9 HD).

The LRO/LCROSS Launch captured by the UCS-12 camera (4:3 SD upres).

A camera on the roof of the tall Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) captured this view of launch (16:9 HD).

Members of the media watching launch from the KSC press site had a perspective like what this camera, located at the press site, captured (16:9 HD).

The LRO/LCROSS Launch captured by the UCS-23 camera (4:3 SD upres).

This camera captures a close-up of the Atlas umbilicals during the launch (4:3 SD upres).

This is the view of the launch from the KSC tower cam.